11. Sausage can be kept at 12 C (53 F) for 7 days or for 1 month in a
refrigerator.

Notes

The above are the original Russian instructions for making smoked and cooked sausage.
The preservation was of most importance as very few prople owned the refrigerator.
You can skip #1 and #6 steps if the sausage is refrigerated.
The sausage was laced across with butcher twine 3 times. The bands were equally spaced.